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Flavors are way more powerful than most people think. And some more than others. There’s a reason terms of endearment center on sweet things. Sweet things innately make us happy. Even as we age, and value flavor complexity perhaps most of all, it turns out that sweetness still has an outsized function. Not sweetness for sweetnesses sake, perhaps, but it does allow us to take in more flavor information overall, synergistically. ​“A spoonful of sugar…” indeed.

A brewing-themed crossword puzzle

There’s so much space for activities.

Theme words fill the board entirely and do not overlap.

One especially sweet, thick IPA style and one extremely dry, thin one may have something good together when they combine signature elements.

Can you guess which words are connected and what they have in common? Make four groups of four and name their relationship.

Which words are connected and what do they have in common? There are four groups of four.

Releasing multiple beers a week is exciting, rewarding (and awarding), but breakneck. Trialing new yeast strains, even when they help enable vision, or perfect finish or process, can also mean more changes downstream. That’s why Ian and Harmony of Blackbird tend to wait for their moment; but they’re used to patience, too.

Omega Yeast’s R&D director, Laura Burns, decodes some of the science behind this new discovery and what it could all mean for brewers.

After nearly two years of ongoing collaboration on thiol research, Phantasm’s founder, Jos, talks curiosity, experimentation, discovery and new Liquid Phantasm.

A brewing-themed crossword puzzle

A brewing-themed crossword puzzle. Scroll past the image to find the fillable grid below.

Bianca uses yeast strains’ morphologies and phenotypes to create detailed portraits

Lance and Laura came away with some rich perspective, and not just on thiols. New Zealand is a beautiful place. They sat down with us to talk about it.

Juicy Bits has been described as the beer that launched a thousand hazies; WeldWerks, the house of haze. Thiolized® yeast is now part of their juicy toolkit.

Beau Warren is something of a futurist when it comes to beer and brewing.

Doug Clark, head brewer at Tampa Bay Brewing’s Innovations Pub in Ybor talks styles and the vision behind what he’s up to. It’s all about introducing customers to something new.

Round up your veggies! It’s time to get pickling.

Eight teams enter. One team wins.

We talk with head brewer Jonathan Moxey about his approach to beer, a case for nuance, and where it all shows up in his team’s diverse, thoughtful and unabating recipe development.